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3 Things Investors Need to Watch About Green Mountain Coffee

Today, analysts Brendan Byrnes and Austin Smith discuss three Green Mountain Coffee story lines that investors need to follow. The upcoming patent expiration could shock the company, which will try to remain competitive despite losing a huge competitive advantage. This could also affect whether GMCR manages to continue its impressive growth story, and help determine whether the company can better manage its inventory.

With Green Mountain as cheap as it's ever been, many investors are wondering whether this is the end of the former market darling, or the perfect entry point for an enourmous rebound. You can find our recommendation for how to play the company in our new premium research report. In it you'll find everything you need to know about Green Mountain, including whether it's a buy at today's prices. Click here for instant access.

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Look at this idiots past articles , it's always the same story under a different article. He is short and trying to save his a$$. It's really almost comical at this point . If you listen to this guy you deserve to lose your money. I've never seen anything like it .

Per the disclosure in this article, I have no financial stake in Green Mountain, or any company mentioned here. The most recent insider buying amounts to only $272,000, which is about 500x less than the most recent batch of insider selling. Granted, that was mostly Robert Stiller's margin call, but going back to the next most recent batch prior to that and we see that the current purchases are still just a sliver compared to larger net sales recently. My thoughts on the current insider buying would be to not read into them too much.

I find it disheartening that you guys literally put out the same article daily with no new information added at all, and just change the title of your article. That is not useful whatsoever , and I think the majority woul be with me on this one. You said your opinion now unless you have something new to add, move on

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Please note that Stiller's margin call accounted for most of the selling in May, but there have been very large sells in February as well and all through 2011. The most recent purchases are very small in comparison, and likely not meaningful.